Why would a few thousand scientists be impossible for an entire continent to accommodate?

No country or continent would have the resources to just accept all those climate scientists.

Just how many climate scientists do you think there are in the US?

This seems to imply that you just replace all fossil fuel energy sources with batteries which does not even make sense. Once the batteries have been discharged, how would you recharge them?

What should actually be done is scale up renewable power generation and then you'd use the batteries to balance out the difference between production and consumption, which takes a lot less batteries than trying to replace energy generation with energy storage (which, again, would not even work).

There's pumped hydro, geothermal energy, and biofuel, in the future we'll likely see some wave power as well. The point isn't to have one technology for the entire grid but to have a diverse and distributed energy system.

For storage there are also many more options than just lithium ion batteries. We have sodium ion if you just want to swap battery for battery, but then there are also for example iron-air batteries that are projected to be dirt cheap, redox flow batteries, pressurized air, cryogenic energy, sand batteries for storing heat, hydrogen electrolysis, etc.

Not only will this make this a power grid that is less dependent on supply chains that are impacted by geopolitical conflicts, but it will also make it more resilient as the weather continues becoming more extreme.

Pumped hydro isn’t feasible everywhere, nor is geothermal

That's the whole point of diversifying, use the sources that are available in the places where they are available.

Biofuel burning emits greenhouse gases

The point is that the greenhouse gases that they emit have already been captured from the atmosphere, which makes them carbon neutral.

Sodium ion batteries are a new technology and we don’t know how well it scales

It uses a lot of the same type of production as lithium ion, it is already being produced by some of the largest battery manufacturers on the planet, and being sold on the market, and we have years of research to give us a good idea of how it will evolve.

And the others aren’t proven technologies, so they may not be around for decades

Neither will fission plants. Even if we decided to start building out today, there are years before we actually see construction start, not to mention commissioning and eventually power production. We're probably talking about the 2040s at that point.

No, the point is that the anti-nuclear crowd is trying to make it seem like there is no role for nuclear energy in the future alongside renewable energy

Some people, sure. But the person above wasn't talking about completely removing all fission, just that we should have started building nuclear plants twenty years ago because it's slow and comes with a massive up-front cost, and at this point we have other alternatives that are cheaper and faster to install. Nuclear fission plants are also a very centralized source of energy, so if there are issues in the future as a result of climate change (similar to what they've been experiencing in France) then you lose a lot of grid capacity all at once while trying to resolve it.

I think nuclear is a reliable source of power, I've been an advocate for it, but I don't believe it's the right solution at this point in time.

Don't forget that he has a back problem from which he is suffering chronic pain, for which I assume that jail is not providing adequate adjustments. I wouldn't be surprised if he is living with a lot of physical agony.

Thank you. I feel like people either think "Stalin was a socialist/communist and a horrible leader" or "Stalin was a socialist/communist and good, actually" instead of considering that maybe the socialist branding was just the propaganda they used to justify the dictatorship.

While voter apathy is widespread in the US, note that voter disenfranchisement has been honed over decades so many people either didn't get to vote or could not vote because the impact to them short-term was too great to afford making decisions for the long term (e.g. people losing their jobs while living paycheck-to-paycheck).

Rogue One was leaps and bounds above the sequel trilogy but I would still say it's not a great movie. Once it gets up to speed and the whole cast has been properly introduced, it's fantastic, but it takes so much of the movie until it gets to that point. Even as a fan, the first half of the movie is a slog where the main character has very little agency or drive, and they're basically just being brought along instead of driving the plot. It's a movie that, in my opinion, starts poorly and ends amazingly.

I've had a pretty easy time getting along with people for most of my adult life, and I've learned to not take coworkers who are in a bad mood or always rude too seriously, so I can't say I've had the experience of being actively disliked.

But I've always seen people as friends pretty fast and I've realized that a lot of my coworkers don't see me the same way, which has made me realize that if I didn't work in the same place of them, most of them would probably forget me pretty fast. I don't really have a lot of friends who live nearby outside of work so it's always kind of stung that my coworkers who I get along with great at work don't really want to keep in touch at all outside of work. So I guess what I've learned is that I should expect that the people I like, respect, and even admire at work probably don't see me the same way and that I shouldn't expect friendships from coworkers.

I'm not in the list either, this is bullshit.

The difference is that white people practically never face difficulties that are related to the color of their skin, there would therefore not be any reason to "stand with white people" except one motivated by racism.

Is your reasoning really "I'm not interested in understanding how it works, I'm just interested in being told I'm right"?

There are tons of videos explaining how quantum computing can breach traditional encryption, and there are a bunch of videos explaining how to make encryption that can't easily be breached by quantum computing.

At uni, the go-to liquor at our events was made from malört and we would have shots of it served up. The taste is awful and it sticks in your mouth, I hated every single one but I have never passed it up either.

They're from somewhere around the year 41900

She's mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out.

Two different sounds, þ is th like in thought, while ð is th like in the.

Oil prices going up makes his oil-producing buddies richer and the deal with Venezuela more profitable. No matter how this ends, he and the rest of the psychopaths in his orbit profit from it.

There is also a Swedish stereotype that Finnish people always have knives and that they take them out when they're drunk.

But cycle life is a central parameter for the cost of a battery, the longer it lasts the more rarely you have to replace it. In the longer term, a battery that lasts twice as long can be practically half as expensive.